So I gathered a few results… after some annoying results I found a bottleneck in my system on 1 of the drives that seemed to bring the benchmark result down greatly, however once this was worked out I acheived the following:

So overall a result that i’m quite impressed with, one that for most things out-performs the connectivity (1000BaseT) I use to retrieve VMDK’s etc from my SAN. Feel free to comment with any suggestions / requests.